different users for NNTP server
Yar Tikhiy
yar at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 6 01:36:56 PDT 2003
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:44:37PM +0400, Alexey Neyman wrote:
>
> I just stumbled over this: while /etc/master.passwd includes the 'news'
> user, the /etc/inetd.conf suggests running NNTP server as 'usenet' user
> (missing from /etc/master.passwd). Shouldn't both these files refer to
> the same user, e.g. 'news'?
While this is not exactly an architectural issue, your point seems
correct. Moreover, we have never had a stock nntpd(8), so I'll
move the nntpd line within inetd.conf down to the section of optional
services as well.
Thanks for pointing out.
--
Yar
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